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Comment by Jan Vladimir Mostert on "Feedback needed on my JavaScript library - R.js" | Hashnode

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Jan Vladimir Mostert

Idea Incubator

Feb 23, 2016

The name is somewhat misleading since R is already a programming language for statistical analysis (I though you ported the whole R language to JS), see R Programming Language)

Otherwise the library looks great and is very minimalistic, perfect for bandwidth sensitive applications!

Sébastien Portebois

Software architect at Ubisoft

Feb 24, 2016

Indeed, from the title I thought it was about a R port in js.

Robert van der Elst

Front End Designer

Feb 24, 2016

Oh, never knew there was a programming language with that name, haha. Just picked the first letter of my name, actually. I didn't want to go the special character route with $ or _ , but I wanted it to be short obviously. Suggestions? :)

Jan Vladimir Mostert

Idea Incubator

Feb 24, 2016

Pick a letter that's not taken (most of them seems to be taken): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languag…

... otherwise just put a disclaimer somewhere in your README that says it has nothing to do with the R programming language. It's great that you can mix R.js with jquery, most libraries just hijack the dollar sign.

Robert van der Elst

Front End Designer

Feb 24, 2016

Disclaimer is the easiest way I reckon. ;) It's because of the hijacking that I want to stay away from the dollarsign :) I don't want to interfere with other libraries and code. But then again, what's the chance that people will actually use this, haha.